Fort Germanna Visitor Center

Visit the Fort Germanna Visitor Center, Museum, Library, and Memorial Garden, one of the jewels of Germanna.

It is located on Virginia Route #3 (2062 Germanna Highway, Locust Grove, Virginia 22508, between Fredericksburg and Culpeper) adjacent to the Germanna Community College’s main campus which is built on land donated by the Germanna Foundation to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the purpose of building the college.

The center is open to visitors from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

We do recommend that out-of-town visitors call us at 540-423-1700 or contact us to confirm that the center will be open at the time of your visit and to make special arrangements for groups.

The Fort Germanna Visitor Center was dedicated in July 2000 and is named in honor of R. Brawdus Martin 1879-1977 who initiated the first meetings of what is now the Germanna Foundation. The library is named in honor of Brawdus’ wife, Evelyn Martin, as a memorial from their daughter, Mary, and her husband, William Bourland.

The architect of the Visitor Center, Doug Harnsberger, is a Germanna descendant, and he chose the pentagonal shape of the building to call to mind the pentagonal shape of the original Fort Germanna.

The handsome copper ship weather vane on top was a gift from the architect.

The construction of the center came about as a result of the hard work of many Germanna members and grants from the Commonwealth of Virginia, federal ISTEA grants and private donations.

Enjoy a short video of the Visitor Center grounds made with a camera-equipped flying drone by an area drone hobbyist:

Germanna Foundation

Fort Germanna Visitor Center, Museum & Library

2062 Germanna Highway (Route 3)
Locust Grove, VA 22508
(Next to the Germanna Community College campus)
Open 1:00-5:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday
Out of town visitors are urged to call us at 540-423-1700 to confirm or to make special arrangements for groups.Location

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The Germanna Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the Colonial Virginia frontier via the historic 1714 Fort Germanna and its German colonists and their descendants.

It conducts archaeological exploration and conservation, genealogical research and publishing, and historic preservation and interpretation.

The Foundation owns and maintains several historic sites and properties, such as Salubria Manor, that were part of or closely connected to the Germanna colonies, the town of Germanna, and the other early colonial Virginia settlements and towns in the Piedmont area of Virginia.